its not back in stock yet, but the buzz is that botero heard that there were alot of complaints about the color change, and decided to go back to the original and make the dark plain gray model 001 or something

ive been emailing HENRY from bhphoto that posted on flickr discussion. and said the ones they have in the warehouse are the patterned versions. he had to ask the buyer to make sure. i went out on a limb and placed an order. he said if i didnt get the right one that they would give me a prepaid shipping label to send it back.( dont know if they usually cover shipping on returns). lets hope i get a patterned one.